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On the geometric genus of subvarieties of generic hypersurfaces

Herbert Clemens, Ziv Ran

math.AGarXiv:math/0204256

Abstract

We prove some lower bounds on certain nonegative twists of the canonical bundle of a subvariety of a generic hypersurface in projective space. In particular we prove that the generic sextic threefold contains no rational or elliptic curves and no nondegenerate curves of genus 2.

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